A parish in the barony of Inchiquin,
6 miles south-east by east of Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Munster. Length,
7 miles; breadth, 4½; area, 19,887 acres, 3 roods, 9 perches, of which
231 acres, 1 rood, 6 perches are water. Pop., in 1841, 4,192. Houses
690. The surface is, for the most part,a series of moors, bogs, and
poor uplands; and its aspect is almost everywhere bleak and repulsive.
Slievecallan, on the western boundary, has an altitude of 1,282 feet;
and some heights in the interior have altitudes of very nearly 500 feet.
The chief stream is the Brockagh. The roads from Ennistymon and Milltown-Malbay
to Ennis traverse the interior. This parish is not recognised in the
ecclesiastical divisions of the Established church; yet ranks as a Roman
Catholic parish in the dio. of Killaloe, and has chapels at Inagh and
Kilmanona.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland,
1845Courtesy of Clare Local Studies Project